“THE 41
PARABLES JESUS CHRIST”
28
general
parables and 13 kingdom of heaven parables
Parable
#33 –
“BUILDING
A TOWER”
Luke
14:25-28,29-32,33-35
The
20th
of 28 general parables
This
time frame is broken into four time periods of (a) 7 weeks
+ (b)
62 weeks + (c) the mystery church age of about
2,000 years +
(d) 1 week = 70 weeks and is explained as follows:
#1. Seven
weeks of years is 7 x 7 = 49 years … the time it takes
to restore
and build Jerusalem from 445BC to 396BC.
#2. Sixty
two weeks of years is 62 x 7 = 434 years … the time
from the
building of Jerusalem in 396BC to Christ being cut off at the cross in
32AD.
#3. The
church age of approximately 2,000 years
#4. One
week of years is 1 x 7 = 7 years … this is the seven
years of
tribulation of God’s wrath upon the earth, that takes place after the
rapture …
called Daniel’s 70th week.
Matthew 24:30
Like free food tasties given out in the Supermarket
… everyone lines up to get the snack … but most know they will not buy.
and he turned, and said unto them, If any man come
to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and
brethren, and sisters, yea, = “How harsh
is this!” many exclaim!
The meaning of the word ‘hate’ has people in a
spin. But why should it? The meaning is very clear.
There are two ways to explain what hate
is in the Bible:
1. TAKE
JACOB AND ESAU …
“As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
(Romans 9:13)
We see that Esau despised his birthright (Genesis
25:34), therefore God simply dropped him down the list of favourites and Esau
did not get the gold medal … he got the silver (Genesis 28:6).
How do we know this?
God did not cut off Esau altogether as God still
gave him an inheritance as follows …
“And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one
blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up
his voice, and wept. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;”
(Genesis 27:38-39)
So Dear Reader we see that hatred is simply not to
be loved as much as another.
Hence being told to hate out mother and father is
simply to love them less than the Lord and what he would have us do.
Of course we love Mum and Dad but if they stand in
our way of serving the Lord we are to hate them … that is … we love them but
we love God more.
It’s matter of priorities. God still loved Esau
with an inheritance … but not the inheritance that Jacob got.
2. THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS HATE
Love is commitment … in that God so loved the world he died for it and those who get saved
will have eternal security in spite of future sin. This is commitment … this is
love.
Hatred is not having commitment … God loved Esau being committed to him but then God hated Esau being
not committed to him. God changed his choice to Jacob and loved him instead.
Esau lost God’s commitment and Jacob gained it.
Therefore to hate someone is not to be
committed to them. God chose not to be committed to Esau but chose to be
faithful to Jacob.
God therefore hated Esau as he had changed his
choice to Jacob.
It’s like a paradox … God loved Esau but God was
not committed to him and therefore hated him. Hopefully this makes sense
Dear Reader.
God hates sin and sinners because they are not
committed … that is saved … by loving Jesus above all else.
God so loved the world that he gave Jesus … but
then God does not love the world because they will not love Jesus. He therefore
hates the world and their sin having loved them.
Wow! Think on these things Dear Reader!
and his own life also, = we are not good people who do bad things … are hearts are evil … the
very nature of us is evil and must be put to death ... in Christ (1 Corinthians
12:13; Ezekiel 11:19; 18:31; 36:26).
Although we may be saved, if we step away and
ignore what the Lord would have us do, then we hate the Lord … but we still
love the Lord.
This is the dilemma for many Christians … they love
the Lord and they also hate the Lord and sometimes the flesh gets too strong.
he cannot be my disciple. = this was under the kingdom of heaven dispensation and not like
today under the kingdom of God dispensation … we are not disciples of Christ
but of Paul (1 Corinthians 11:1).
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, = today Christ bears our cross … but instructions for the Christian life
are given in Paul whereby Paul shows us how to ‘bear our crosses’ eg Read
Romans chapters twelve through fifteen.
and come after me, = today we come after Paul as he follows Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1)
cannot be my disciple. = this was then … but not today. But we will be conformed to the image
of Christ (Romans 8:29)
For which of you, intending to build a tower,
sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to
finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid
the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock
him, Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. = yes …. it all got a bit to much for some and they walked away (John
6:66).
It's like a person who opens a restaurant because
friends and relatives love his cooking, but with all the aspects of running a
business, it all gets a bit too much … no staying power.
Lesson:
This is a parable of the kingdom of heaven
dispensation with spiritual application for the kingdom of God.
November 2023
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“THE 41 PARABLES JESUS CHRIST”
28
general parables and 13 kingdom of heaven
parables
Parable
#34 –
“A
KING MAKING WAR”
Luke
14:25-28,29-32,33-35